Appearance / Description of Object(s)

It looked like a big helicoptor without the tail but bigger and it had windows all around it but it was not shaped like a cylindar or wheel. I couldn't tell which end was the front

Size of Object(s)

The Object was like 30 yards long or a little less.

Description of Area / Surroundings

Ft Belvoir is really near where I was the base actually has water front property. I was within 5 miles of the Mt. Vernon Plantation. There was a a house across the water with a green light at the end of the pier and I remember it made me think of the book "The Great Gatsby".

Full Description & Details

I was out on a first or second date with a girl and I pulled off the Mount Vernon Parkway (Close to George Washingtons home) into a parking spot that over looked the Potomac river. We talked for about 3 hours there and at one time a police came up and put his flash light in my windows to make sure we were doing something we weren't supposed to but we ended up staying parked and talking since we were caught up in conversation.

The object I saw we very quiet I didn't hear it I only saw it when I looked out over the water. It was about 120 Yards away from me and it looked to have windows that gave off a yellow light as if the light was bright in the vessel and the windows were tinted a bright yellow and I couldn't see anyone inside.

I was so amazed I stopped talking and just watched the object for about 10 minutes. It hovered over the water for like 7 minutes then it started to go up (straight up). I watched it go up higher and higher at a very slow speed then all of a sudden it took off like a shooting star it seemed to hit the atmophere and curve down a little bit and then disappeared into space in like 1.5 seconds or faster.

I asked, "Can you beleive that?" and she asked "What?"

She had never seen it.

I told her what I saw and the only reason I never said anything when the object was right in front of us was because it was so obvious.

It never made a sound even when it "blasted" into space so I understand why she never saw it and I wished I would have said something to more validate what I saw.

I really questioned what I saw like 2 weeks after but there was no way a glare in anyway could have made me see what I saw. I don't question it anymore I know I saw what I saw.

If I wouldn't have shut up and paid attention I might have never seen the craft either so I can see why she didn't see it.

Afterward I was so mad that the Police wasn't around or that he didn't come back because I wanted to report what I saw and see if anyone else had seen anything.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

I can't explain it. The object flew straight up and then took of diagonally without making a sound.

Witness Background

I now work with computers at a really good company and I have a excellent job with a clearance. I used to work rebuilding starters and alternators at the time I saw the craft.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I knew nothing. I thought they would be loud.

Reported Sighting?